[NTLUG:Discuss] Troubling hard disk behavior

[Leroy Tennison]

Running SuSE 10.3 with a Seagate Barracuda ST3250620A drive.  Twice on
boot up GRUB paused for a significant length of time at stage1 but
eventually booted.  Today during the init scripts I got a time out
waiting for one of the partitions to presumably mount.  I am running the
smartd daemon.

Running smartctl as root with -H reports "PASSED" for the drive and "-l
error" states that there is no error log.  The current drive was
purchased relatively recently when these tools presented a "drive
failing" message to me one day.

Any ideas as to what could be wrong?  Yes, I ***DID*** back up my data
when these events took place...